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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Front Cover News

Many of my quilting and blogging friends have been receiving their February 2012 issue of American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine and noticed that my quilt is on the FRONT COVER. I was hoping to do this post before it hit the stands but heck, that's been my life of late. I seem to be several steps behind in a lot of things.

First, I want to tell you how much I appreciate the sweet notes I've been getting. It's like receiving a SWEET GIFT each time a little note pops up in my mailbox. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! It really brightens my day : )

Every time I look at the magazine I think. . . WOW!!! I really made that!! WOW!!!

It's been a hard secret to keep and I'm super excited to finally be able to talk about it.

It all started when I took a few quilts to Spring Market earlier this year and I had the opportunity to talk to a few Magazine Editors. I was really nervous but they were delightful and easy to talk to. It was fun sharing some of the things I'd been working on and they actually bought two of my quilts right then and there. Wow! Super exciting!! I could hardly believe it!

Anyway. . .

I love making scrappy quilts so I decided to design a quilt that would use a lot of the fabric I have in my stash of 30's reproduction fabrics. It's borderline hoarding, probably, maybe. . . but, don't quote me on that. I also love all of the new fabrics that are always coming out so, I decided that I would mix the OLD with the NEW and make a very SCRAPPY quilt.

If you look closely at the quilt in the magazine and the pictures of the fabrics I used you will see some pretty old fabric. I've been collecting Aunt Gracie fabrics and other reproduction prints for many years. You will also see a lot of newer fabrics from some of my favorite designers like. . . Sandy Klop from American Jane, Lori Holt from Bee in My Bonnet, Monica from Happy Zombie, Flower Sugar Fabrics by Lecien, Amanda Herring from Quilted Fish, Denise Schmidt's recent collections, and lots of other designer's too.

I really wanted to give the quilter the ability to use their stash but also allow them to go shopping. Who wouldn't want to have some of the newest cutest fabrics in their scrap quilt? It was VERY HARD for me to STOP buying fabric. I kept telling myself, “Ooooh! Wouldnʼt this be cute? I have to have a bit of this!” I actually used over 150+ fabrics in this quilt. I hope you have fun playing with your stash and adding the newest cutest fabrics to your quilt.

Here's a picture of some of the fabrics I used.

Here's a view of the multiple HST's I made for the quilt.

Just so you know I did make about (8) 15" x 15" design boards to layout and plan each and every quilt block for this quilt. I like to call it "Organized Chaos" because I wanted the quilt to look esthetically pleasing yet have a totally random look I laid out 8 blocks at a time and would then sew them together. I also wanted all of the colors to be represented in each block.

Go HERE for Lori Holt's tutorial on how to make your own Mini Design Boards. I do need to let you know that I changed a few things. . . First I made my boards bigger and instead of using hot glue to adhere the batting I used spray adhesive on the back of the batting to adhere it to the foam board and lastly, I didn't make any binding for the 15" x 15" boards since that would be 60" of binding for just one design board and at that point I really didn't want take the time to make that much binding. I loved using the smaller and portable design boards to construct these and other blocks that I've made and I know you'll love them too.

Little Flooding Update:

We spent the weekend moving stuff out of one bedroom to the next so that we could paint. Now we have to move things out of the last bedroom so it can be painted before Thursday. That's when the last of the carpet is being put in. Yeah! Then the Christmas decorating and clean up can begin. I'm hoping by the end of the week I can get the tree decorated, the bedrooms put back together, and the curtains hung. My daughter and her BF come on the 21st. We are excited for the festivities to begin.

39 comments:

I had no idea that was your quilt! I'm loving it. Love the bright colors. Congratulations! I've been thinking about you actually lately. I saved pictures of your sewing studio for inspiration for mine and I was wondering how it was coming along. I hope you share pictures when you're done. I've lost my sewing sanctuary (it truly was a sanctuary for me) for about six months until my daughter gets married bz my son is coming home from his mission Friday so I had to move my stuff out of his room. I don't mind though as I'd rather have my kids around than my own room any day! No sewing for awhile around here though since it's too hard to get it out and put it back up, especially with little grandbabies how visit all the time.

It's beautiful Kim -- Congratulations again! Thanks for giving us a little peek at your fabrics and how you laid them out. Such a fun quilt! Now, on those design boards -- if you didn't bind them, did you do something else to the edges?

Lovely cover :) And I immediately smiled at your photos with your cut fabric all neatly lined up (in my brain I saw you with your quilters ruler measuring down to the quarter" between lines ;DCongratulations!

Wow! Did you really make that? ;)It's drop dead gorgeous and I love it to bits. I'll be looking out for the mag hitting the shelves over here. It'll bring a bit of brightness to a very damp and dark Scotland. Can't wait.Congratulations!!

I got my copy last Friday in mail and I fell in love with the quilt not realizing whose it was at first. I made a 30's quilt about 15 years ago called Aunt Maggie's Quilt. It was my first quilt that i sold. I still have the scraps from it. Congratulations on getting into my favorite magazine

Congratulations! I got the magazine yesterday in the middle of a family muddle and only saw the cover quilt. I fell in love immediately, I have to make one! Good luck on getting the house back in order for the holidays.

I am a lover of scrappy quilts too and congratulate you whole heartedly on your good fortune to make the cover of the patchwork magazine. What an honor and your hard work got you there, so give yourself a nice pat on the back. So nice that this issue made it on the stands before Christmas too, what a nice present for you around the holidays.Susanne :)

A HUGE congratulations is in order! You did such a beautiful job and that cover immediately grabbed my attention in the store the other day. You should be very proud! It's amazing and one I can't wait to make!

Hi Kim: I bought a copy of the American Patchwook today. Your quilt is on the cover here in Baton Rouge. You are a "cover girl". WooHoo!! I am going to Bountiful next week. How is the weather up there?

Congrats to you my sweet friend. I'm very happy with you. The cover! Wow. What an accomplishment. I see where those lovely 30s fabrics came from that we made our lanyards with. You smartie! I'm very excited to pick up a copy. It is something to treasure.

Just picked up the magazine the other day, and already I have plans for this quilt! Lovely design and pattern, I can't wait to get started! I'm going to cut the two pieces a little bigger as the tip states, which can still fit on a layer cake......right? Congrats on the front cover!

Those fabrics are just so happy! I just stumbled onto your blog by accident. Will be following for sure! I'd love it if you checked out my blog sometime, though mine is new. (www.3littlebrds.com - hope that's okay to post, just delete if not.)

wow, stumbled upon your blog and was delighted to discover that you made the merry-go-round quilt! I am currently working on making it (all by hand) for my daughter's wedding in October. It is so pretty, but I'm not sure it will be finished in time...anyway, wanted to let you know your blog is a terrific inspiration! thank you!

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